Andries Sanders
Andries Frans Sanders is a Dutch psychologist. In the 1980s he was professor at RWTH Aachen Technical University and served as director of its Institut für Psychologie. Sanders was professor of psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam between 1989 and 1998.
Life
Sanders was born on 4 April 1933 in Amsterdam. In 1957 Sanders started working at the Institute for Perception RVO-TNO and became the first psychologist employed there. He first worked under supervision of John van de Geer, but received his PhD with honors in 1963 at Utrecht University under supervision of Johannes Linschoten. In 1966 he organised and convened a meeting on attention and performance which would subsequently become a symposium series. In 1968 he was one of the founders of the Dutch association for psychonomy. In the 1980s he worked as professor and director of the Institut für Psychologie of RWTH Aachen University.Sanders was a professor of cognitive psychology, psychonomics, experimental psychology and theoretical psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam between 1989 and 1998. At the Vrije Universiteit he also served as dean of the faculty of social sciences.
Sanders was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.